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WIRELESS AND CABLE DEVELOPMENTS.
Under any circumstances the speech delivered by Sir John Dennison-Pender at Tuesday's meeting of the Eastern Tele- graph Company would have been read with interest, comprising as it did a most excellent survey of the genesis and progress of the company. Additional interest, however, was lent to Sir John's remarks by the fact that at any moment now the (Continued on page viii.)
public is expecting to learn the result of the negotiations with the Government and the fusion of wireless and cable companies. Sir John, however, was justified in emphasizing the part which the Eastern Telegraph Company had played long before the days of wireless, in bringing about rapid communication between the Empire and the Mother Country. Even now, when wireless has become so widely used, the Eastern and the Associated Cable Companies carry a much larger volume of traffic than the wireless services where they are in competition, but it will readily be seen that, on the other hand, the cable companies can ill afford to lose any part of their traffic taken by the wireless systems. It is satisfactory, therefore, to note that Sir John regards with satisfaction the approaching combine and anticipates not only good financial results but good results from what may be termed the Empire standpoint.
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